Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral PowersSection II. Personal Affections
5. Extrinsic Affections
885. [Undue Assumption of Superiority.] Insolence.
impertinence, cheek [colloq. or slang], nerve [slang], nerviness [slang], sauce [colloq.], abuse; sauciness &c. adj.; flippancy, dicacity [obs.], petulance [rare in this sense], procacity [rare].
impudence, self-assertion, assurance, audacity, hardihood; front, face, brass, gall [slang]; shamelessness &c. adj.; effrontery, hardened front, face of brass.
JINGOISM, chauvinism; Kultur [Ger.], “might is right,” Macht ist Recht [Ger.].
MALAPERT, saucebox (blusterer) [See Blusterer].
JINGO, jingoist, chauvinist; fire eater [colloq.]; boaster [See Boasting].
arrogate, assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell.
outface, outlook, outstare, outbrazen, outbrave; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs [colloq.]; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big, put on big looks, act the grand seigneur; mount -, ride- the high horse; toss the head, carry with a high hand; tempt Providence; want snuffing [colloq.].
DOMINEER, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter -, regarder- de haut en bas [F.]; exact; snub, huff, beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear -, beat- down; browbeat, intimidate; trample -, tread- -down, – under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over; bulldoze [colloq., U. S.], terrorize.
pert, flippant, fresh [slang, U. S.], brash, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert; impudent, audacious, presumptuous.
BRAZEN, bluff, shameless, aweless, unblushing, unabashed; bold-faced, bare-faced, brazen-faced; dead -, lost- to shame.
BLUSTERING, swaggering, hectoring, rollicking, roistering, vaporing, free and easy, devil-may-care, jaunty or janty; thrasonic [rare], thrasonical, fire-eating [colloq.]; “full of sound and fury” [Macbeth].
JINGO, jingoistic, chauvinistic.